Lew / Hall / Williams The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Tourism

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-47449-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 672 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Companions to Geography

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Tourism presents acollection of readings that represent an essential andauthoritative reference on the state-of-the-art of theinterdisciplinary field of tourism studies.
* Presents a comprehensive and critical overview of tourismstudies across the social sciences
* Introduces emerging topics and reassesses key themes in tourismstudies in the light of recent developments
* Includes 50 newly commissioned essays by leading experts in thesocial sciences from around the world
* Contains cutting-edge perspectives on topics that includetourism's role in globalization, sustainable tourism, and thestate's role in tourism development
* Sets an agenda for future tourism research and includes awealth of bibliographic references

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lew, Alan A.

Hall, C. Michael

Williams, Allan M.

Über Autor(innen)

Alan A. Lew is Professor in the Department of Geography,Planning and Recreation at Northern Arizona University, USA. He isEditor-in-Chief of Tourism Geographies, and co-author ofUnderstanding and Managing Tourism Impacts: An IntegratedApproach (2009), World Regional Geography (2010), andTourism Geography (2014).
C. Michael Hall is Professor in the Department ofManagement, Marketing & Entrepreneurship the University ofCanterbury, New Zealand; Docent, Department of Geography,University of Oulu, Finland; and Visiting Professor at LinneausUniversity School of Business and Economics, Kalmar, Sweden. He isCo-Editor of Current Issues in Tourism and an AssociateEditor of Tourism Geographies.Allan M. Williams is Professor of Tourism and MobilityStudies at the University of Surrey, UK. He is Co-Editor ofTourism Geographies, and co-author of several books,including Critical Issues in Tourism (2002), Tourism andTourism Spaces (2004), and Tourism Innovation(2008).